OldNick

that will keep Pompeyfrom fines this time then.

St Jason for chairman....can I arrange a march now? Jason Out Your post is so right, we lose the object that WE all want saints to be great again..of course your way is wrong and my way is correct

I will grant that and he kept a great deadpan look

I was not for him but if the plan was to have any chance you had to give it some time to see if it bore fruit.G&D was an experiment/choice that could not be tested any longer as we were hurtling down.Forget not that LC had them down for the season and were3 the right men to get us into the promotion play off places.

It was scripted

Im gla we are not in for him as he would have chosen colchester instead of us

When was the appointment though? about the same time or perhaps a little later.Just 1 game too many and it could have been terminal.Jan going was to my mind 5 games too late and G&D tenure 9 too many. I want the fans to move on and stop the tit for tats, of course iam more than able to join in but today im being unuisually magnaminous as i feel upbeat about our chances.

Quote: Originally Posted by nickh or its cat and mouse games to get Swansea to give a better offer. Alpine reply 'Jesus, only you would have come out with that. ' Perhaps just perhaps if this does happen you may have the temerity to come on and apologise for that comment

You sum up how poor our options really are.We have such poor options, it really is pathetic and it galls me clubs of little apparent potential get backers and we dont.LC is a saints fan that it seems is the best part of his CV.If he gains power then I will give him time to prove himself, that is only fair.

jason your posts show that and also surprisingly they show you have a sense of humour as well!! I can only go by my own judgement and view on things.iam fortunate to get little snippets and they do bode well.I asked whether KD was likely to leave and got the impression that was not going to happen (unless a good offer came in) as KD is so proud of being made Club Captain he was said to be well made up being given that role.i dont wish to tempt fate but that is the impression I was given yesterday. The players do believe thye will turn it around and Wotte has changed things for the better. Now it is early and i was on here less than impressed about Wotte's appointment,but hearing the positives yesterday added to the battling that we have for so long lacked then it heartens me to feel supportive of the management.He has now got to come up with the goods, add to that the fans being really intelligent saturday where they forgot the RL thing during the game and supported the team we could perhaps grow from this.

what does it tell us? Its very confusing he did so well for us but cant get into the Stoke team. I dont wish him unwell but I do hope he does not help Norwich to our cost.

That is what is great about football, it is opinions.i took it as Lampard did go in with his studs up but the man was nowhwere near it, it was Alonso who followed through and kicked Lampard not the other way around. Gerrards for me was more dangerous to the player.

I thought it wouldnt have upset you as you could see it for as it was.Some slack should be given for the language but also the fans who were hypersensitive to it would not embrace Wotte anyway as he's RL's man.The only way for him to get them onside is by getting results. That will make this storm calm. lets hope my newfounded confidence is well founded.

Again valid points but are we not weary of every season getting at the manager /board because we are having bad times.If it wasnt HR or Gb it is jan or G&D. Perhaps the focus of our anger has become RL but low and behold anyone taking over who does not delived success because the impatience of the fans is all consuming.

That is 100% correct, having said that if the reporter had asked him the question and he had tried to bluff his way out of it , there would have been cries of foul.Sometimes it is Catch 22, we had the great MLT and Benali's motives questiojed last week as they didnt tow the rabid Lowe out line.Can you not see alos that the anti people are so unable to accept not all see it their way and perhaps there is a little bit of room in the middle ground.Most if not all Lowe posters say they want him goe, but not at any cost and so I feel they are the ones who are reasoned as they at least will try and listen to reason(ok there are a couple who wont)

Gerrards hit the player but he did not roll over and react, it was more dangerous than Lampards.Lampard got to the ball first , yes his studs were showing , but Alonso followed through and was late not lampard.

Did it upset you really? For a person who tries to calculate the situation it would surprise me if it really did upset you.You surely understand whilst his English is much better than Jan's the way he puts things may unintentionally offend, bloody hell i do it most days on here and English is allegedly my first language!

Ump and you think LC was a success!!! he did just what you complain about RLdid.Kept a failing pair of manager who were brought from the staff.As I mentioned in another post would we still be having a love in with him and NP had the worst happened? i think we would have blamed him for D&G and also appointing a rookie manager who had been relegated managing Carlisle.Fortunately we got out of jail at the last possible moment. Saying all that RL made another poor judgement in appointing Jan but he is gone and now we have Wotte.iam now a little more upbeat about him after saturday and also hearing what i did yesterday about the way he is handling things. 3 games time I may regret those words but I bleieve we now have to get on with it as another change will not solve unless it arrives with a large amount of cash to improve the squad with quality loan signings.

All well and good Ump and I see your point but it is a storm in a tea cup and only hypersensitive fans would feel slighted by the comment and I still dont think it was aimed at the marchers per say.

Ridding us of Lowe Might give us unity, relegatin whoever is in charge will bring the recriminations again.If we had gone down last season, i could not say i would not have blamed LC and NP etc for that happening, while others would have sid it was down to Lowe getting us relegated or GB.That is the sad point of it, whatever happened fans are at 2 poles and whilst it can be papered over until we get the WHOLE regime gone it will never happen.Being English Imstill being blamed for the potato famine that happened hundreds of years ago FFS and so the wounds we have now may be there for generations. Depressing.

Isnt it funny the ones who called posters like myself and you Lowe luvvies when the Wilde bunch were around and were cosying up to him and some of them on here bought T-shirts with his face on LOL , now distance themselves and never mention their naive support.They question our failed judgement when they have been fooled by one of the most blantant cases of wool being pulled over their eyes. I will join a campaign if a proper alternative comes forward.LC is not to my mind credible as he would not unite the board and again unsettle the club by changing the manager. I had a good conversation with a friend at the club yesterday.he was at first sceptical of Wotte but he has been turned around in his view.The squad are happier , there is a better mood and strong togetherness.Tactics are being talked about more in depth and the team are being told all the time 'back to back, back to back' instiling in them the need for back to back wins that will gewt us the league.Like myself the feeling that we can indeed now stay up is sweeping again through the squad.

You've not quite got that right.I was critical and sceptical about an appointment.What I was supportive of was getting the club onto a sound financial footing and by ridding us of the high earners and using cheaper assets seemed correct.If we were 10 points worse off we would be good as down now.At least at present we can decide whether to take the 10 points deduction at our choosing.Reading posts on here i can see why we as a nation has a massive debt bubble because patently people dont understand affording to survive or basic budgetting. You have in your own small way helped weaken us. You remind me of the people who complain about the local pub closing. You moan about it going but never use it so it can survive and then join the Real Ale campaign and try and get it stopped being turned into a house. See you at the next game.......oh

Is it just a case fans want a reason to have a go at RL's appointment and used a small part of an interview, a few words in fact, by a foreign person to be outraged?

we were only 20 minutes from finding out last season.

I suppose Id wait until Id seen him play beore making judgement, tghere again if I was so wishing for everything to fail just to prove my point Id criticise.